Know your history.

I honestly did not know there were photos from the day.

Check that story out.

Give the Gettysburg Address a listen, since you probably haven’t heard the words in awhile.

Plus, some context on the speech and a speech on Lincoln and JFK that I caught part of today.

Conservatives hate kids once they are born, soldiers once they have served, and any idea that might make them rub more than a couple brain cells together.

Hell, look at the ACA. It was their idea and they hate it because it is overly complicated. That, and the whole “black guy is making it happen” thing.

But what conservatives absolutely LOVE is necrophilia.

Now I am not sure about the actual physical practice – you’d have to ask them – but putting a new suit on a corpse and making it dance their philosophical horizontal mambo is their strong suit.

The things they’ve done to Reagan are amazing, and he was already their zombie. That’s what the do to the legacies of people they *like*.

And then there’s Jesus. There’s got to be a whole plethora of smiting of what they’ve attached his name to.

Now? Fifty years since some assclown used a Second Amendment Remedy to undo his presidency, the Right wants to embrace JFK as one of their’s.

Little problem. He wasn’t.

Unlike turning the Civil War into a tiny state’s rights disagreement that got out of hand, the history of the South’s racial discrimination as well-meaning paternalism, and attacking women, minorities, gays, kids, the elderly, et al as just “compassionate conservatism”, we really shouldn’t let these clowns get away with this argument.

And hopefully we don’t. The tide needs to turn. Not all opinions are valid, particularly the ones that are composed out of fantasies and lies in the first place.

As with the sword story from the other day, I love watching folks carry on old traditions of skill and art, and having fun doing so.

Sadly, I can’t find the original video for this story, but I believe I have a follow-up one where this particular foundry ending up closing a few years later.

I get a kick out of watching folks keep the old skills alive and well, and are enjoying themselves while doing it.

We need to remember why some folks fought the system. The same things that caused the Depression are back with us again. Guthrie did his part.

I am not sure the Civil War needed to be MORE bloody, but at least one historian thinks we are underreporting the dead. And he’s got the research to make his case.

More on this via the BBC.